Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Unhelpful girlfriend award goes to...

Yesterday I went shopping with J.R. He needed new pants. I wasn't as helpful shopping assistant as he was earlier when we were shopping new jeans for me. He let me stay in the fitting room and brought me new and new jeans to try on. I just had to put them on and say what I thought about them. His patience seems to be endless.

When J.R. was looking for the pants, I just kept dropping comments like "My dad would wear those", "My dad would wear those too" and "My dad wears those". And that's not particularly helpful. I didn't hunt the smaller/bigger sizes for him either, even though he kindly did that for me. But I did stay in the fitting room to keep an eye on his stuff.

J.R. is really skinny, so he has troubles with finding fitting pants. He tried on some nice velvet pants. They were too big. He asked for a smaller size but the sales woman said that the smaller size doesn't even exist. I feel a bit sorry for him. My size is very regular so it's almost always availabe. His size seems to be often sold out.

He was particularly looking for velvet pants, but it's not the velvet pants season right now. So after a while he decided to go for blue jeans, which feels weird to me. My J.R. has always wore nothing but black pants, but of course I would accept the change.

But he bought nothing. I didn't buy anything either. Pants and jeans are hard to buy.